Clear contents of cell if unallowed data entered

[tysonz1987]

Hello,

In my column J, the only value that is allowed to be entered is "AR". If they enter anything other than "AR", I want a message to pop up that says something like "This condition is not allowed....etc " and I also want the data that was entered for that cell only to be cleared.

So far I am able to bring up the message but don't know how to clear the contects. See below.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

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[HaHoBe]

Hi, tysonz1987,

maybe like this:

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Ciao,
Holger

[FDibbins]

a mon-VBA option would be to put AR in a cell somewhere, and then use Data Validation to restrict entry to just what that cell contains. you can make the "message" anything you want

[arlu1201]

Try this -

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[tysonz1987]

thank you all for your help.

HaHoBe - your code worked well and I am going to go with yours.

arlu1201 - for some reason adding the "target.clearContents" caused some sort of looping (the message box would repeatedly pop up after pressing ok) and then it would crash the program.

FDibbins - thank you for your advice

[arlu1201]

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[FDibbins]

thanks for the star